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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
6
In a dramatic scene, a wary Lord Howe presses for generous rewards and careful plans as the proposed purchase signals power shifts. The aged statesman insists on no rewards, warning such promises would ruin influence. The moment foreshadows looming conflict among factions.
At Ada city meeting new mayor Somer Jones fills appointive posts including finance commissioner Charlie Deaver and public property head Walter Smith. Fire department stays with Ed Haley. police chief Sam Hargis appoints new patrolmen John Rawls Jerome Morrow Earnest Miers and C T Hunt. attorney A G Winn to serve as health officer.
Solomon and Jack travel from London to a dawn duel at a field of honor with General Clarke. They stay at The Rose and Garter as Doctor Brooks prepares, pistols loaded, and a waiting crowd builds around the encounter. The scene shifts to the tense showdown with set distances and formal challenges.
Solomon Binkus and Preston visit Sir Jeffrey Amherst near London while Sir Benjamin and Jack dine at two clubs. They later attend a performance with Robert Bensley as Malvolio and Dodd as Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The Britisher is polite but avoids mentioning the subject.
City commissioners met this morning focusing on the new administration's agenda while leaving most major issues unaddressed. The session touched on appointments and a few ongoing problems facing the city government.
Ada Independents held Wilson scoreless five innings but costly errors and timely Wilson hits turned the game to an 8 3 loss Sunday at Wilson. Burnett held Wilson without a hit until the sixth. Wilson bats surged with errors, and Waner Kirkpatrick and Burnett led Ada with two hits apiece. Wilson visits Ada again next Sunday for a rematch a fast, improved foe.
Madame Chikako Kuroda, teacher at Tokio Higher Normal School, becomes the first Japanese woman to be registered for medical practice and awarded an M D degree by the Imperial University of Tokio for a thesis on violet rays.
State Senator Harve Langley predicts a possible court bid to block disbursement of 650000 dollars allocated by the ninth legislatures second extraordinary session for weak districts. He argues the biennial increase is a raid on the treasury and warns it could become a fixed revenue source.
The Methodist Episcopal general conference approved unification with the Methodist Episcopal Church South by a vote of 802 to 18 for the adoption resolution and 842 to 18 on the organic union after a recount. Bishop McDowell presided as the report was presented by a special commission. Delegates from Philadelphia and Indiana spoke in support. The Nashville bishops’ council awaits the action and will be informed.
Hon. William 4H Murray former congressman and Oklahoma constitutional convention president leads Oklahoma group to establish a colony in East Bolivia. He sails from New Orleans May 7 aboard the S Abanarez toward Havana and then to Antofagasta with 72 people including families, teachers, and professionals.
The Oklahoma state school department, hearing possible moves to enjoin disbursing funds for weak districts, expects no action if such attempt occurs. M A Nash says the defense would rest with state officials and the attorney general. Meanwhile the department prepares to assist in distributing the $650,000.
Stillwater May 7 M J Utey former financial secretary of the A M college charged with embezzling 1989 from college funds moved in district court to set aside the indictment alleging insufficient evidence and improper grand jury drawing. Judge C C Smith set Saturday for a hearing with grand jury witnesses to testify. Otey pleaded after arraignment, and the motion was filed just before the plea deadline.
Philadelphia police recovered ten weeks old Corinne Modell at a nearby home ten weeks after she was abducted from her sleeping coach. A woman, Mrs. Mary DeMarco, confessed to stealing the infant to fool her husband and was arrested with her spouse Gorman DeMarco. The residence was about a mile from the Modell home.
The April weather summary shows a maximum of 92 and a minimum of 29 with 20 clear days 5 partly cloudy and 5 cloudy. Rainfall totaling 5.06 inches occurred on 7 days. Year to date rainfall for four months is 11 inches, compared with 19.11 and 18.98 for 1923 and 1922 respectively.
Seventy five colonists from Oklahoma Texas and Arkansas sail on the steamship Abanglerez to Bolivia to raise stock. Col William H. Murray leads the expedition granted 175000 acres at Yacuba near the Chilean border. The group will transfer at Havanna to Antofagasta and travel to Yuuba by rail.
County Treasurer J. W. Westbrook warns that after May 10 the first half of taxes must be paid in full. Those who fail to pay the half by the deadline will owe the entire amount with penalties and interest accruing quickly. Public notice urges taxpayers to meet the first half payment to avoid higher costs.
Six Italians condemned to be hanged for a Dallas Caimes bank robbery slaying were moved from parish prison to Amite to await Friday executions. Roy Leona of Brooklyn stabbed himself five times. he confessed to the three year old case. Guards escorted prisoners to a special train as others protested their fate.
UK NEMS Bowles Smith and others in section 34 5 6 five miles north of Ada report a promising oil showing at 1480 feet. The sand layer is two to three feet thick and drilling continued at 1520 feet Saturday. Operators Ed Gillett and Robert Galbraith hold about two thousand acres northwest of Ada and plan two wells soon. Doc Sandbach, longtime Ada oil hand, notes the Dixie well in Vaness just west of the discovery is near ready to resume after reaching 540 feet.
The Wilcox offset to the discovery well in the Vaness field section 28 3 4 was not a paying well at 869 feet. It will be drilled deeper and is now 890 feet deep.
The Empire Well in 4-3-7 drills at 400 feet while LaSalle cleans out at 1935 in 31-5-5. Lloyd drills at 1185 in 6-3-7 and Hughes shows gas at 565 in 28-4-7, a second gas showing in 100 feet. Howart remains at 1603 feet in 19-5-7 as Crater drills at 1920 in 3-2-5-5.
The American Oil and Refining Company shut a deep well, over 1300 feet, in the John W. Balthrop farm area just north of Ada, amid gas territory with eyes on possible oil. Ed Gillette and Robert Galbraith announce two wells north and west of Ada near Clint Palmer, fueling local excitement. Galbraith, a noted Oklahoma oil figure, helped bring in the Glenn Pool near Tulsa and once owned much Bromide land with visions of a booming city.
The Loyal Men's Bible class at Harris Hotel elected A. C. Chaney president J. A. Criswell vice president and E. E. Emmerson secretary treasurer with Cecil Mallory as assistant A Mother’s Day program was announced for next Sunday after the meeting. The group then marched to the McSwain ten ine Wee Line East at te.
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